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Wednesday 10 May 8.00-10.00pm Investcorp Lecture Theatre Middle East Centre, St Antony’s
8pm – 10pm El-Bi’r/Le Puits/The Well (Algeria, 2016) Film screening followed by Q&A with the director Lotfi Bouchouchi
Thursday 11 May 9.20am-8.30pm Investcorp Lecture Theatre Middle East Centre, St Antony’s
9am – 9.20am Registration and coffee
9.20am Opening remarks Eugene Rogan (Director of the MEC, St Antony’s)
9.30am – 11am Panel 1 Un-framing/Re-framing the Algerian War of Independence and its aftermaths, in Algeria and in France
Chair: James McDougall (Trinity, Oxford)
Andrea Brazzoduro (Trinity, Oxford)
Is a global microhistory approach of any use in Algerian War studies?
Malika Rahal (CNRS-IHTP, Paris)
Writing about 1962. Questions of time, continuity and revolution
Natalya Vince (Portsmouth & Algiers 2)
When was the post-war, when was the post-colonial? The case of the University of Algiers, 1963
11am – 11.30am Coffee
11.30am – 1pm Panel 2 Microhistories I: Actors
Chair: Jim House (Leeds)
Khaled Chérif-Sabeur (Algiers 2)
Les tirailleurs sénégalais à travers quelques extraits inédits de poèmes populaires kabyles
Neil MacMaster (UEA)
From ethnology to counter-insurgency: Jean Servier’s Dans l’Aurès sur les pas des rebelles (1955)
Sylvie Thénault (CNRS-CHS, Paris 1)
The Froger case, Algiers 1957: Towards a study of Algeria’s colonial society at war
1pm – 2pm Lunch
2pm – 3.30pm Panel 3 Bodies at war: violences and representations
Chair: Natalya Vince (Portsmouth & Algiers 2)
Khedidja Adel (CRASC, Constantine)
Femmes dans la guerre d’Algérie: enfermement et corps en souffrances
Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins)
Who had ‘les couilles’? Far right histories of the loss of French Algeria, 1962-1970
Anissa Daoudi (Birmingham)
Women’s narratives of violence in Algeria: history, fiction and memory
3.30pm – 4pm Tea
4pm – 6pm Panel 4 Microhistories II: Spaces
Chair: Andrea Brazzoduro (Trinity, Oxford)
Ouanassa Siari Tengour (CRASC, Constantine)
L’histoire silencieuse de Bir Chouhada, Puits des martyrs
Marc André (UCLA)
Les Algériens à ‘Fort Montluc’. Militariser la répression en France durant la guerre d’indépendance algérienne
Claire Mauss-Copeaux (Lyon)
À la ferme Ameziane et au-delà: Hadjira
Paul Marquis (Sciences Po, Paris)
Du ‘camp d’hébergement’ à l’hôpital psychiatrique: histoire(s) d’un double internement (1957-1962)
6pm – 6.30pm Investcorp Foyer, Middle East Centre, St Antony’s
Book launch followed by a reception
James McDougall A History of Algeria (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
8.30pm Old Bursary Dining Room, Trinity College Dinner for invited participants
Friday 12 May 9.30am-2.30pm Danson Room, Trinity College
9am-9.30 Coffee
9.30am – 11am Panel 5 Imagined geographies, imagined communities
Chair: Judith Scheele (All Souls, Oxford)
Amar Mohand Amer (CRASC, Oran)
Algérie en 1962: indépendance nationale et influences étrangères
Kelsey Suggitt (Portsmouth)
The organisation Commune des Régions Sahariennes (OCRS): Eurafrica in action?
Jim House (Leeds)
Solidarity and fear in an Algiers shantytown before, during and after the war for independence
11am – 11.30am Coffee
11.30am – 1.30pm Panel 6 Histories, memories, and wars after the war
Chair: Michael Willis (St Antony’s, Oxford)
Hassan Remaoun (CRASC, Oran)
La construction d’une histoire nationale en Algérie
Yassine Temlali (Aix-Marseille)
L’affirmation berbère après 1962 et le mouvement national indépendantiste: de la construction d’une ethnohistoire contemporaine à la régénération du berbèro-nationalisme
Charlotte Courrèye (INALCO, Paris)
La construction de la mémoire de l’Association des Oulémas Musulmans Algériens et de sa légitimité par ses anciens membres dans l’Algérie indépendante: le tournant des années 1980
Nedjib Sidi Moussa (INALCO, Paris)
Djihad, guerre ou révolution? Nommer le conflit algérien: enjeux théoriques et controverses politiques
1.30pm – 2.30pm Lunch and close
This is a free event open to all
